US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 14 for "Rotor and motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,446, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Rotor and motor" was invented by Yuusuke Fukushima (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor includes a rotor core; a plurality of magnets respectively inserted in a plurality of first through-holes formed in the rotor core; and a plurality of rods respectively inserted in a plurality of second through-holes formed in the rotor core. A first gap between each of the first through-holes and the corresponding magnet is larger than a second gap between each of the second through-holes and the corresponding rod."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30...